Wow.  A vampire movie trailer that has a unique twist on the whole lore.  What a novelty.

So, I made the mistake of purchasing 3 months of unlimited US / Canada calling through skype 3 months ago to give it a test.  I haven’t used it much because the call quality is complete crap frankly – but either way I did the purchase as a one-time purchase (or so I thought) to give it a test.

So you can probably imagine my surprise when I checked my email this morning to find out that Skype had setup my billing as an ongoing subscription, set to automatically renew.  So they charged me automatically for another 3 months without letting me know, not even a warning email to let me know that my 3 months was about to expire as a courtesy.

I mean seriously, these are tactics that shady porn sites use for billing, not a supposed ‘leader in ecommerce’ like Ebay/Skype/Paypal.  I won’t even get into the details of what one of the other guys in our office ran into trying to deal with Skype & Paypal’s customer service – or lack thereof.

Shady Ecommerce billing like this is what gives people a bad taste in their mouth over buying things online – and Ebay’s customer service policies just make things that much worse.

Sigh.  Just makes the rest of us trying to operate online-based businesses look bad.

Ok, finally decided to get the site back online with a new look & feel.  Playing around with a bunch of new plugins, so expect everything to be mostly broken over the coming days.  This site is also going to be my testing ground for wp experiments, so if things look broken, well…they probably are ;}